Worksheets get skipped. That is the reality homeschool parents run into constantly when the material reads like a textbook chapter instead of something a kid actually wants to open. Writing curriculum that earns a student's attention on its own, without a teacher standing over their shoulder, is harder than it sounds, and it is exactly what this role is for.
This is a full-time, fully remote position in the EdTech space, open to candidates anywhere with no office or fixed location attached. The audience sits somewhere between a traditional classroom and independent study, since a homeschool student is working through material largely on their own but usually with a parent checking in, and the curriculum has to hold up under both kinds of attention.
You will design and develop curriculum content and courses covering the subjects assigned to you, working alongside subject-matter experts to make sure every lesson is accurate before it goes anywhere near a student. Once a unit is built, you publish it to the learning platform and then keep an eye on how learners actually engage with it, not just whether it looks good on paper. If completion rates drop off halfway through a module, that is a signal to revise, not ignore.
A fifth-grade fractions unit, for instance, might show a steep drop-off around lesson four, right where word problems start layering on top of basic operations. Rather than assuming the math itself is too hard, the first move is checking whether the instructions are the actual barrier, since a homeschool parent is not always in the room to clarify a confusing prompt the way a classroom teacher would be. A rewrite that adds a worked example before the practice problems often fixes more of the drop-off than adding extra problems ever would.
Writers on this kind of team typically work a subject or grade band at a time rather than jumping across the whole curriculum at once, building a real depth of familiarity with how concepts build on each other across a school year. That specialization tends to produce stronger units than trying to cover everything shallowly, and it is part of why hiring managers ask about specific subjects and grade levels early in the process.
Tone matters more in homeschool material than it might in a school-issued textbook, since the writing is often the only voice guiding a student through a lesson besides a parent who may not know the subject well themselves. Instructions need to stand on their own, clear enough that a confused eleven-year-old can reread them and get unstuck without needing an adult to translate what the page is actually asking.
This role is full-time and pays $67,500 a year. Remoteroles posts EdTech curriculum roles like this one fairly often, and homeschool-specific openings tend to draw candidates from both traditional teaching and corporate learning-and-development backgrounds.
Writers who build a strong track record on one subject or grade band over a year or two often move toward a lead writer or curriculum-review role, where they start editing and approving other writers' units rather than only producing their own. That shift usually comes with more say over how a subject's overall scope and sequence gets structured across a full school year, not just how a single unit reads.
You need a bachelor's degree in instructional design, education, or a related field, plus 24 months building curriculum or instructional content. Prior corporate training experience counts, but so does classroom teaching background or work at another curriculum publisher, since the core skill, breaking a subject down into something a student can follow independently, transfers across those settings. Bring examples. A writing sample or two of curriculum you built will move you through screening faster than a resume ever will.
A background as a classroom teacher who has since moved toward writing tends to bring something a purely corporate-trained instructional designer sometimes lacks: an instinct for where an eight-year-old's attention actually breaks down mid-lesson. Neither background is required over the other, but hiring managers do look for evidence that a candidate has watched real students struggle with real material, whether that came from a classroom, a tutoring practice, or homeschooling their own kids.
This job is fully remote and open worldwide. Curriculum writing is largely independent work, so most of your week will be heads-down building and revising content rather than sitting in meetings. Expect scheduled check-ins with subject-matter experts and the broader team on a recurring basis, plus async feedback through shared documents and the LMS itself, but the bulk of the writing and design work fits around whatever hours suit you.
Deadlines still exist even without a fixed office schedule. Units usually need to publish ahead of the school year they cover, so the calendar tightens noticeably in the months leading up to a fall release, with more breathing room once a school year's core material is live and the work shifts toward revisions based on how students are actually engaging with it.
Go ahead and apply now with your resume and a sample of curriculum or instructional content you have written. If your background is strong, expect a portfolio review to be the first real step, followed by a conversation about the subjects and age groups you would be building for.